Covid 19

[ticapnews]

Obviously the virus outbreak is more important than hockey.

Blasphemer!

[acs64]

Re: Covid 19

I may have to call a close friend tonight out of curiosity.
He's a career medical specialist and has been at OSU's medical center for 30 years.
He'll tell me if there's any difference between what is officially put out there information wise and what's unofficial.

Yes do that and report back to us will ya. I have a strong feeling the media knowingly overhyped this whole thing to provide an alibi to take the stock market down and they succeeded.

[UMD21]

Re: Covid 19

If UMD goes to Detroit I’ll drive if I have to

[Stauber1]

Yes do that and report back to us will ya. I have a strong feeling the media knowingly overhyped this whole thing to provide an alibi to take the stock market down and they succeeded.

Good god I hope this is satire.

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Covid 19

Yes do that and report back to us will ya. I have a strong feeling the media knowingly overhyped this whole thing to provide an alibi to take the stock market down and they succeeded.

Yeah, Italy and China are shut down because of the liberal media.

[northeastern]

actually, most Chinese production is back on line. They don’t dwell on it or CYA like we do.

Meanwhile, 500 people did actually DIE because of all things - tuberculosis ! in the nation called the United States.

oh well, I’m done with this.

[French Rage]

Re: Covid 19

Disclaimer because some people are morons: Obviously the virus outbreak is more important than hockey. Hockey is just a game. People are losing lives. I understand.

But, if this trend continues into conference championship weekend and the regionals...really putting a damper on my favorite time of year.

Agreed. Especially with Cornell looking reaaaal good this year. But I'd rather side with caution and do what we can to lessen community spread.

[French Rage]

Re: Covid 19

Yeah, Italy and China are shut down because of the liberal media.

They're clearly in on it. Nothing like a payout split 1.5 billion ways. Study it out. #qanon

[Hockeybuckeye]

Re: Covid 19

DON'T POP THE BUBBLE WRAP!
It has air from China in it! LOL!

[acs64]

Yeah, Italy and China are shut down because of the liberal media.

China’s basically a third world country for all practical purposes and Italians cant follow directions so there you have it. It’ a flu without a vaccine is all it is. Use some common sense

[Bonin21]

Re: Covid 19

This thread is painful

[LTsatch]

Re: Covid 19

Well hopefully I will get a refund for the Frozen Four that I did not really want to go to.

[ticapnews]

Re: Covid 19

This thread took a hard right turn into Looneyville all of a sudden.

[Split-N]

Re: Covid 19

I know I'm going to get pilloried (at least from some quarters) for what I'm about to post but I'm going to post it anyway. But first some disclaimers--

1) I am not an epidemiologist or medical analytics wonk. (And AFAIK, nobody else on this board is either)
2) I'm north of 70yo. (And will get even further north of that in a matter of days.)

That being said--
--I get it that there's a new strain of virus in the wild and that it spreads easily
--From what I've been able to digest, the effects are mild to moderate and run their course in a week to ten days
--The fatality rate is relatively low compared with other outbreaks and affect primarily people in my own age range, especially those with pre-existing respiratory or immune issues
--I live in a big city and continue to move about freely; I went to a college basketball game last night and sat in the midst of other humanoids; I'm observing that the restaurants and bars remain relatively crowded (and I've been a part of some of those crowds); ditto for the buses and subway trains.
--I have not been struck down, nor do I expect to be (at least not from Coronawhatever). Maybe I'm living on the edge and it will yet get me. (If so, I'll put in a good word for everyone here once I get to the other side.) But I refuse to stop daily living.
--Oh, and I do wash my hands multiple times a day. But I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

Summary (personal opinions only): Yes, something's happening out there, yes, we should be concerned, and yes, we should be developing and implementing countermeasures with all due haste. But what we should NOT be doing is whipping ourselves into an ever accelerating, self-perpetuating fear frenzy. To try and put this into some personal perspective, COVID-19, at least so far, doesn't even begin to compare with other scary outbreaks that have occurred in my life experience. So let's get a grip. This is not the Black Plague. We will not be having Tyvek-suited people pushing carts through the streets and calling, "Bring Out Your Dead!"

To loosely paraphrase Franklin D. Roosevelt, it's time we stopped fearing fear.

[acs64]

Re: Covid 19

I know I'm going to get pilloried (at least from some quarters) for what I'm about to post but I'm going to post it anyway. But first some disclaimers--

1) I am not an epidemiologist or medical analytics wonk. (And AFAIK, nobody else on this board is either)
2) I'm north of 70yo. (And will get even further north of that in a matter of days.)

That being said--
--I get it that there's a new strain of virus in the wild and that it spreads easily
--From what I've been able to digest, the effects are mild to moderate and run their course in a week to ten days
--The fatality rate is relatively low compared with other outbreaks and affect primarily people in my own age range, especially those with pre-existing respiratory or immune issues
--I live in a big city and continue to move about freely; I went to a college basketball game last night and sat in the midst of other humanoids; I'm observing that the restaurants and bars remain relatively crowded (and I've been a part of some of those crowds); ditto for the buses and subway trains.
--I have not been struck down, nor do I expect to (at least not from Coronawhatever). Maybe I'm living on the edge and it will yet get me. (If so, I'll put in a good word for everyone here once I get to the other side.) But I refuse to stop daily living.

Summary (personal opinions only): Yes, something's happening out there, and yes, we should be concerned. But we should not be whipping ourselves into a self-perpetuating fear frenzy. To try and put this into some personal perspective, COVID-19, at least so far, doesn't even begin to compare with other scary outbreaks that have occurred in my life experience. So let's get a grip. This is not the Black Plague. We will not be having Tyvek-suited people pushing carts through the streets and calling, "Bring Out Your Dead!"

To loosely paraphrase Franklin D. Roosevelt, It time we stopped fearing fear.

Bingo !